Facebook has been defending its user metrics after some recent market reports unfavourably suggested that fatigue had set in for some of the 1.15 billion folk accessing the free content ad network.
A representative at the company emailed its advertising partners – Facebook's real customers – with some smelly old stats from …

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Peak Facebook ?

*If* Facebook has reached the stage where it can no longer generate "new" accounts (despite spamming the hell of out non-Facebook friends of Facebookers) then it has to be able to demonstrate it can *effectively* leverage the existing userbase to prise open their wallets.

Mobile users

And, how many of those (L)users actively suppress the ads, or passively ignore them? How many of those users have disposable income to blow on the advertised goods, versus being 12 year olds spoofing their age, and with no money? How many of those (L)users have the attitude that "I'd never buy anything from a company that advertises on a site like this!"

Dave

P. S. How long before FB succumbs to the dark side, and starts allowing pr*n images, to attract even more (L)users?

Re: Adblock Plus

What do they class as active? Logging in? Pulling pages? I'm sure some people have FB apps set to on full auto-login and auto-update, doesn't mean they actually used the site as such. Most important for the ad-men is to know if people actually looked at the page content. Auto-logins and auto-updates are useless to the ad-men trying to sell ad-space to their clients.

Talk about being "hooked at birth", hahaha. But, inactive users will internally be spoken of as "denoded", "lost connections", "latent reconnects", and "delayed packets" in the "stream of consciousness that is OURS".

First, babies were mostly "accidents". Silly people are "hatched". If the spawn of Satan, dropped out of a jackal's ass, hahaha. Now, babies will be "uploaded" then "downloaded".

Maybe Facebook will design and patent a premature "Borg Maturation Chamber", and Palo Alto will be the neural plexus? Facebook will "link and connect" people from -- not cradle to grave , but -- fertilization to decomposition...

Maybe some enter, prising, uninvited, un-end-vaded Swedish Swimmers will sneak in some "ball cutters" at the company's next all-male swim fest?